Torey Quinn's List: Training Delivery

A free desktop timer application for keeping meetings on time.

Lynda.com course, requires subscription account.


"Develop the skills you need to prepare and deliver an outstanding speech or presentation with our public speaking training. Author Laura Bergells offers practical insights that can help presenters prepare, open, deliver, and close their speeches. Along the way, discover how to project confidence, storyboard a speech, take questions, respond with thoughtful answers, and develop the creative story that adds life to a speech.
Topics include:
Identifying your audience
Developing credibility
Introducing an agenda
Exploring five strong opening techniques
Developing great body language
Understanding room dynamics
Handling questions and answers
Getting feedback"

Lynda.com course, requires subscription account.


"In this course, author David Diskin lays out a practical framework for building and delivering business presentations in Microsoft PowerPoint, and covers tips and tricks for controlling elements in slide decks. This course demonstrates how to engage an audience, present data in meaningful ways, incorporate gestures, and manage question-and-answer sessions. The course also includes tips on creating photo slide shows and utilizing keyboard and mouse tricks.
Topics include:
Adding whitespace
Applying transitions
Using photographs, colors, and fonts
Incorporating diagrams and SmartArt
Customizing layouts and templates
Animating bullets, photos, and other objects
Inserting music and audio
Utilizing speaker's notes and the Presenter view
Creating handouts
Planning the program
Dealing with distractions
Setting up and tearing down"

Lynda.com course, requires subscription account.


Watch as author Karen Hyder demonstrates how to use WebEx Training Center to hold effective online meetings with audio, video, and screen sharing capabilities. This course covers how to set up, host, and manage sessions using built-in collaboration tools; how to engage presenters with chat and polling; how to share presentation duties with other participants; and how to use the WebEx recording features to make content available to others at a later date.

"From ancient times questioning has been a technique for meaningful teacher-student dialogue. Socratic questioning helps to understand and probe deeper into a topic. Asking questions also help the participants to clarify their doubts and their thinking, as well as challenge their pre-existing notions and assumptions. And it helps to generate different explanations for a concept, examine the concept from different perspectives, and encourage discussions in the session. "

"One of the most fun and exciting things about being a small business consultant was the training I got to provide clients, both the sessions I developed and those I facilitated from the course Managing and Supervising for Productivity. I have been a trainer since high school and then as an instructor electronic warfare officer in the U.S. Air Force followed by a wide variety of training sessions and speeches."